Demise of British Motorcycle Industry Subject of Interview with ‘Shooting Star’ Author Abe Aamidor on BlogTalkRadio’s Ride!
Toronto, Canada, October 17, 2009 --(
PR.com)-- During the 1930s and ’40s the British motorcycle industry was the largest in the world for full-size bikes. It declined precipitously by the mid-1970s, a victim of corporate mis-management and trade practices.
Abe Aamidor’s new book, Shooting Star: The Rise & Fall of the British Motorcycle Industry (ECW Press), captures the romance of the industry’s heyday and its fall from glory through archival and rare material and interviews with business insiders and former stars. It is considered to be the first “fully impartial, independent review of the industry.”
Aamidor is an award-winning automotive journalist, author, and university lecturer. He has been a reporter for the St. Louis Globe-Democrat and the Indianapolis Star and is co-author of Crash Course: Middle America’s Battle to Save the Car Industry (2010).
Listen to Abe Aamidor on Ride! October 21st @ 7 p.m. Eastern Time. Tune in to the live podcast on the BlogTalkRadio network at www.blogtalkradio.com/ride. (You can also listen to, or download, the archived podcast from the Ride! website and iTunes.)
For more information:
ECW Press
www.ecwpress.com
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Contact:
Adrian Blake
www.blogtalkradio.com/ride
www.adrianblake.com/motorcycling.html
http://twitter.com/Twistgrip
About Ride!
Ride! is an online talk show that's all about motorcycling. It debuted on October 24, 2007 on the BlogTalkRadio network and subsequently won a 2008 MAX Award (Motorcycling Award for Excellence) from the North American International Motorcycle Supershow.
Notable names in motorcycling who have guested on Ride! include Ted Simon, Erik Buell, Clement Salvadori, Genevieve Schmitt, Cyril Huze, Jason Britton, Grant Johnson, Jordan Szoke, Carla King, Vicki Gray, Lawrence Hacking, Ken Condon, Michael Long, Michelle Duff, among others.
About Adrian Blake
Ride! host Adrian Blake is a freelance motorcycle journalist, writer, and podcaster. He currently writes motorcycle reviews and features for Sun Media, the largest chain of daily and community newspapers in Canada.
Adrian’s freelance motorcycle features have been published internationally. His work appeared for eight years in the bestselling custom bike publication American Iron Magazine. In the late ’90s, Adrian designed the popular Route 66 tour for Edelweiss Bike Travel (Austria). He recently accompanied Australian motorcycle tour company Compass Expeditions on a tour of Patagonia, South America. Read his blog at www.patagoniaon2wheels.blogspot.com.
About BlogTalkRadio
BlogTalkRadio was established in August, 2006 as the first social radio network on the Internet. Receiving attention and acclaim from media outlets like USA Today, CNN, CNET.com, TechCrunch, FoxNews, and dozens more, BlogTalkRadio is revolutionizing both social media networking and radio broadcasting.
